What it does
Stores your data in an elegant way that will give you great flexibility and leverage. This library is designed to be used as a state management solution for applications that need to be performant for quickly mutating state over many different types of entities with similar characteristics. Applications such as games and simulations. If performance isn't this crucial then check out DataScript which provides immutability, versioning, undo/redo, and a powerful datalog query engine.
All data stored in Wharf is organized uniformly as
- Entity - just an id (i.e. 1)
- Attribute - an attribute of the entity (i.e. name or age)
- Value - the value of the attribute (i.e. "bob" or 50)
For example let's describe some shapes.
- entity 1 is a blue square
- entity 2 is a red triangle
- entity 3 is a red circle
Entity | Attribute | Value |
---|---|---|
1 | color | blue |
1 | width | 20 |
1 | height | 20 |
1 | n_edges | 4 |
2 | color | red |
2 | base | 10 |
2 | height | 40 |
2 | n_edges | 3 |
3 | color | red |
3 | radius | 20 |
3 | n_edges | 0 |
Although there are 3 distinct types we can perform generic queries that cross types.
All entities that have a height
attribute returns [ 1, 2 ]
Entity | Attribute | Value |
---|---|---|
1 | height | 20 |
2 | height | 40 |
All entities that have a height
and a width
attribute returns [ 1 ]
Entity | Attribute | Value |
---|---|---|
1 | width | 20 |
1 | height | 20 |
All entities with a value 20
returns [ 1, 3 ]
Entity | Attribute | Value |
---|---|---|
1 | width | 20 |
1 | height | 20 |
3 | radius | 20 |
All entities where color == red
returns [ 2, 3 ]
Entity | Attribute | Value |
---|---|---|
2 | color | red |
3 | color | red |
How to use it
var db = ;//make a new "db" to work with //create some entitiesvar square_id = db;// (returns false on failure)var triangle_id = db;var circle_id = db; //db.set will add/overwrite attributes and values on an entitiydb;// -> true (returns false on failure) //db.get returns the entities datadb;// -> {color: "red", radius: 20, n_edges: 0} (returns null if it's not found) //At this point the db has 3 entities the same as in the example //All entities that have a `height` attributedb;// -> [ square_id, triangle_id ] //All entities that have a `height` and a `width` attributedb;// -> [ square_id ] //All entities with a value `20`db;// -> [ square_id, circle_id ] //All entities where `color == red`db;// -> [ triangle_id, circle_id ] //entities are easy to removedb;// -> true //if an ID doesn't exist it returns falsedb;// -> false
Installing
There are 3 ways to include this library
With browserify
$ npm install --save entity-wharf
Then use it
var Wharf = ;...
With a script tag
Download this script then include it in your html
Then use it
var Wharf = ENTITY_WHARF;...
With RequireJS
Download and use this minified script then require it
;
License
The MIT License (MIT)
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